The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-05-26

has a good effect.
There is in Alaska a glacier 5000
feet wide and 700 feet deep, whichmoves
into Glacier Bay at the speed Of forty
feet a day, bringing each "a hours no.
OOO,O 900 cubic feet of ice. yq' T.,
Fire in Danvine, Va, last Thursday
night destroyed five tobaccoo factories
with about 100000 pounds of leaf to-
bacco. Several tenement houses, and a
machine shop near by were also burned.
A moccasin was killed on Pigeon
creek, Alabama, n day last week which
measured five feet three and a half inches
long and contained 2s6 eggs. That must
be healthy locality for moccasins.
"A singular case is. now before the
circuit court at Lynchburg, Va. Two
men claiming to be the husband of the
same woman; but the woman is dead and
left some money, which may account
for it. -. Il. ...>. -
At Grand Rapids, Michigan, last
week a Mrs. Boyd recovered So, 800 dam
ages from a bar keeper who sold her hus-
band liquor, under the influence of which
he killed a man and was sent to the peni-
Tertiary.
y Commencement exercises of Oxford
Female Seminary will begin May 3lst.
Rev: Geo. w. Cooper, D. d., of Rich
mond, Va, will preach the Baccalaureate
Sermon. Hon. A. M. Waddell, of Will
mington, will deliver the Annual Address.
At the solicitation of a committee Of
the Women's Christian Temperance
Union, President Cleveland has prohib-
tied the issuing Of licenses for the sale of
liquor on the grounds at Washington
where the National drill takes place this
week.
-Thirty-eight patents were granted to
citizens of the Southern States bearing
date Of the 18th inst, as reported to us by
Louis Dagger & Co., Solicitors of Patents,
Washington, D. G. Mr.. Rufus Parish, of
Troyville, N. c., was granted a patent on
a hoof trimming machine.
The Department of Agriculture in
South Carolina has received reports from
237 correspondents who report the con-
dition Of crops in that State May LIST as
better than they have been at that time
since 1882. The area of cotton and rice
is about the same, but more corn has been
planted.
If you have fertile land, do not ruin
it by taking crops from it without giving
it anything in return. You must feed
land with manure to keep up it's
fertility. Sprinkling with commercial
fertilizers will not do. Land needs and
must have more substantial nourishment
than that.
President Cleveland has issued an
order consolidating a number of internal
offices throughout the country.
Under this order the sixth district in this
State is abolished and the officers relieved,
the district to be merged into the fourth
and. fifth. It is claimed that 100000
annually will be saved to the government.
THE East Tennessee Farmers COM
vention, in session at Knoxville last week,
with three hundred delegates in attend
ance, passed a resolution favoring an
amendment to the Constitution Of that
State prohibiting the traffic of liquor, and
themselves to use their influence
to the carrying out of the amendment,
if submitted to the people. aso
Thomas Jefferson brought the tomato
to this country from France, believing it.
would prove good food for. stock. For
it was grown only as a curios-
in gardens and was known as the Glove;
They have grown very popular
as an article of food in this country, and
their consumption is annually increasing.
For bilionsness and ailments, it possesses
medicinal properties. !
The New York Post has been making
some comparisons between the percentage
school attendance in several Of the
Southern and New England States, and
inds it to be 70 in Texas to ~ in Yer
mont and 70 in Florida and 50 In South
Carolina to an average Of SO in all the
New England States. From this it would
'eem that New Englond has not much
ia ~lactnre the South on the school